Source Material:
- “Testify” by Eve L. Ewing
- “A Litany for Survival” by Audre Lorde
(This Weekend Wind-Down references the radical thinking of self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” Audre Lorde. Please read her poem “A Litany for Survival” to get some context for her work.)
Prompt: Today we’re going to practice the poetic form litany (list poem) by writing down all the moments of joy in our life. The key here is to be as particular and specific as possible with your details.
Christie Valentin-Bati
Christie Valentin-Bati (she/her) is a poetry MFA candidate and instructor at Columbia College Chicago. She considers herself a multi-genre artist working through writing and photographic mediums. Her work dives into the quotidian, the body, experimentation with hybridity and visual elements of text, and understanding “the uncanny.”